Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and Other Western States. 2007. (California Natural History Guides, Volume 91). 338 col. illustr. 89 line drawings. 15 tabs. 400 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Takes a fascinating look at the world of plant galls, the organisms that initiate them, their host plants, and their intricate behaviors.Focusing on native trees and shrubs, but also discussing several gallsthat occur on herbaceous and ornamental plants, it illuminates thecomplex interrelationship between botany and entomology and magnifiesour awareness of plant communities in the West. It identifies more than300 species of galls (95 on oaks, 22 on members of the rose family, 60desert species, and 35 species that are new to science), and describesplant galls from coastal dunes, the high Sierra, the Great Basin, forests throughout the western states, and the Mojave and Sonorandeserts.